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My mom says that I was a quiet, well-behaved baby.

Wow, everyone was either exceptionally colicky or exceptionally quiet? Everyone?

I was colicky, my parents said I would cry as soon as they picked me up then be quiet when they put me down. I would also scream if I was put into a dark room with a little daylight coming through the window. I also took a long time to learn to walk but was potty trained early.

I was quiet according to my mother.

From what I remember my parents telling me I was a pretty quiet baby.

I picked "colicky," even though I never actually had colic, to my knowledge. But I was a very, very disruptive baby. I cried a lot. My mom had great difficulty soothing me. Years later, we figured out that most of my crying was due to sensory issues.

I was apparently quiet and observant until someone comes along to poke me. I didn't and still don't like to be interrupted.

I was a quiet baby, but I puked a lot. All of my mom's kids did, but I was the quiet one. The other kids have been really loud from the very beginning. One was a constant screamer, one never stops singing, and the other laughs manically. Two of them cry if left alone. I never did that.

Once my mom forgot about me when I was about 10 months old. She thought that my grandmother had come by to pick me up that day (as she sometimes did, having her own key) because it was so quiet (she didnt hear me whistling for a change). She decided to sleep in. Nine hours later, she got up to go to the bathroom, passed by my room, and screamed. I was in the crib playing with my socks (something that I often did for hours). I am told that I looked up, smiled, said "Hi, mommy.", and went back to playing with my socks.

A few months later my grandmother came over and I saw her through my window. Being the complete idiot that I am, I climbed out of my crib and attempted to defy tha laws of gravity. I actually remember this incident, because it was the first time that I realized that I kind of enjoy the sensation of falling. Needless to say, I hit the hard wood floor so thereafter. My head banged against the floor, I saw some "stars", and then I got up and tried to walk it off but my mom, who's heard the racket, swooped in and grabbed me and started saying the things that mothers say when their small children injure themselves. I never cried. I just stared at her face. The expression on it was...odd.

I didn't really cry much until I started school. After that relatives affectionately refered to me as "water head" because I never seemed to NOT be crying. Of course, no one knew what was going on at school back then. lol So they were suprised when I would come home and always have a crying fit a some point during the day.

I put Normal/NT. Neither particularly colicky nor particularly quiet.

This came up when my daughter was born (not diagnosed autistic till age 5). My mom said she cried a lot more than me, but about the same as my (NT) sister. So my mom kept expecting my daughter to follow the same crying trajectory as my sister and stop crying about time she was able to sit up.

But then she was able to sit up and still cried an amazing amount so I took her to the doctor. The doctor said "colic" and told me to buy digestion drops which help digestion (the going theory that babies are crying from digestive pain). That didn't work. She stopped crying so much sometime in toddlerhood.

Looking back it was probably sensory issues. Too loud. Too bright. Too many people. Too much motion etc. Too much sensory input in general. But at the time, this did not occur to anybody. The only thing that seemed to help at these times was close physical contact. She needed to be held and carried and hugged. My husband and I took turns as our arms got tired. I think this fact about her may have delayed her diagnosis somewhat. When she was a tot and having problems in preschool, I took her to be evaluated and they asked me many questions about her infancy. It seemed greatly significant to the evaluators that being hugged by her parents was calming. It got labeled "anxiety" (and I'm sure it was) but I think one reason nobody said "autism" at those early evaluations is because they couldn't imagine an autistic baby having her anxiety calmed by close physical contact with other humans.

I was definitely colicky.

I was very quiet because I used to sleep for 15 hours non-stop without waking and my mum could wash, change, dress and feed me and I still wouldn't wake up. I only cried when I was older and anyone picked me up. I preferred to be left alone all day lying in my cot or sitting up playing with a bag of toys.

Tiffinity.

I was severely colicky when I was a baby. I would scream night and day and my Mum nearly disowned me.

Now I am 21 and I have irritable bowel syndrome.

I was very quiet and apparently very well behaved